I trained my weapons skill to 120 from fighting Yomatsu Warriors. I Lightning Striked every chance I could and got up to about 115 bushido when I finished macing. I finished my final 5.0 from Lightning striking Miasma while I farmed gold and items to unravel. There was nothing special about it, but it worked and I made a tidy sum in the process. I never used a single momentum strike while training bushido.

I found going to the Painted Caves and alternating Lightning and Momentum Strike on the troglodytes with a Soul Seeker to be the fastest way to go. Between Vampire form and the leeching, mana and health were never an issue.

Just constantly target every troglodyte in the lower caves to keep a mob on you, or try the upper cave where Lurg and Grobu are if you can handle them.

Yes, it is faster... but still not fast. As HKC pointe out, get a fast mana leech weapon (e.g. the Soul Seeker) and go to a high spawn area like the Painted Caves. LS every strike, and the action will probably be too fast to even loot. I think it took me about a week to go from 100 to 120 bushido poking miasma and trogs.

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You don't need to quit factions to beat the horse just resign from your guild, and then when your done training jump back in the guild. I usually use the horse method on new chars with GM focus/med and wearing a LMC/MR suit and a fast weapon and usually I can regen mana just as fast as I use it. If I'm still having mana problems then I'll throw on enough items so that I can go into Lich form. For more developed chars that don't have room for focus/med and I don't feel like stoning skills around, I'll just grab a fast weapon (swords in your case) with HML and go LS the trogs. I'm not really looking to do massive damage just to be able to hit quickly.

Ok thanks for the suggestions. Active training is boring to me too so I prefer stuff like Miasma or Trogs which will provide at least a bit of entertainment ..

Been doing Miasma last day or two and gained a little swords, finally up to 105. Bush is just creeping right along, at 101.1 this morning.

I like the fact I can get loot to unravel from Miasma, and some gold. My imbuer gained a few .1's this morning from the loot so it seems to be good to do as an improvement for both toons...

Reptalons wandered into the area a couple times. That paralyzing roar was a little scary. Was madly clicking my trapped chest and then my bandage and hitting divine to get my sta back. But I defeated them, using EOO, Honor, and my hml/hsl/di/hla/hit area all purpose radiant scimmy

Best thing to do is buy a cat from the NPC animal trainers. Then make sure your unguilded and just spam LS on it with a fast weapon. It also helps to pack on MR2 or MR3 gear in every slot possible and switch your character into Lich form for the MR bonus. This should allow you to spam ONLY LS almost non-stop. From 100 it should take roughly about 8-10 hours of non-stop cat beating to hit 120 using this method. It would take FOREVER and a day to reach 120 just using it randomly on monsters you fight. So TBH trying to gain that way is kinda dumb unless you enjoy that method or don't mind hitting 120 bushido until sometime in 2012...

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Best thing to do is buy a cat from the NPC animal trainers. Then make sure your unguilded and just spam LS on it with a fast weapon. It also helps to pack on MR2 or MR3 gear in every slot possible and switch your character into Lich form for the MR bonus. This should allow you to spam ONLY LS almost non-stop. From 100 it should take roughly about 8-10 hours of non-stop cat beating to hit 120 using this method. It would take FOREVER and a day to reach 120 just using it randomly on monsters you fight. So TBH trying to gain that way is kinda dumb unless you enjoy that method or don't mind hitting 120 bushido until sometime in 2012...

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If you want to powergain it, the above statement is as good as it gets. I know I got my 120 bush in one day. Turned UO on, MR/LMC suit, no lich form for me and stuck a penny in my F1 key to constantly spam LS...

i agree that bushido is a pain in the arse i preety much used lighting stirkes till 110 and then after that it slowed way way down. after that id be just using moentium stirkes and make sure to log on each day for a giving ggs .1 TYR

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